Identifying Features 2020

Identifying Features 2020

Identifying Features 2020

Identifying Features 2020
Sin señas particulares (original title)
1h 35min | Drama | 15 January 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

Months after Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) set out on foot for the U.S. with a friend from their rural town in Guanajuato, Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her beloved adolescent son. Determined to unravel his fate, Magdalena soon finds herself in over her head, entangled in an expansive crime syndicate and labyrinth of disorienting lies on an increasingly surreal journey to uncover the truth. At the mercy of those with the power and courage to help her find closure, Magdalena’s path fortuitously converges with that of Miguel (David Illescas), a young man not unlike her son Jesús, returning from U.S. deportation. Ensconced within the realm of magical-realism while exhibiting remarkable restraint, IDENTIFYING FEATURES is an impressive, symbolic re-imagining of a culture adrift and seeking spiritual reunification. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and Screenplay Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

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I nostri figli 2018

I nostri figli 2018

I nostri figli 2018

I nostri figli 2018
1h 40min | Drama | TV Movie 6 December 2018

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Giovanni, Luca and Claudio are the three sons of Elena, killed by her ex-husband. Orphaned, the three children are taken into custody by the family of a distant cousin of the victim, who faces challenges and difficulties to give serenity to the boys.

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Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999
Petits frères (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 7 April 1999 (France)

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Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.

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Passing Strangers 1974

Passing Strangers 1974

Passing Strangers 1974

Passing Strangers 1974
X | 1h 16min | Drama, Adult | 26 September 2020 (Norway)

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Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.’s pioneering gay adult drama, Passing Strangers tells the story of two gay men in San Francisco who meet via a newspaper ad and fall in love. The stunning Robert Adams stars as Robert, the 18 year-old high school senior who is the object of affection for the film’s 28-year old protagonist Tom (Robert Carnagey). Tom’s curly locks and luscious good looks seem to make him irresistible to all – as he spends his time cruising Polk Street, going to the baths and the bars – but when Robert responds to his personal ad in the gay paper, Tom finds himself falling in love. It offers an earnest and deeply engaging gay love story at its core.

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Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990
Unrated | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, War | 6 May 1990 (Poland)

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In Warsaw, Doctor Henryk Goldszmit a.k.a. Janusz Korczak runs an orphanage with a great dedication and love for the orphans. After the invasion of Poland by the German army, his orphanage moves to the Warsaw ghetto with two hundred children. Dr. Korczak asks for food and money from the wealthy Jews. When the ghetto is displaced to Treblinka by train, Dr. Korczak refuses a Swiss passport and embarks in the train with his beloved children.

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County Lines 2019

County Lines 2019

County Lines 2019

County Lines 2019
1h 30min | Drama | 4 December 2020 (UK)

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The term ‘county lines’ describes the practice of using children to traffic drugs from cities to coastal towns and rural areas, an under-reported fact of modern British life. Inspired by the stories he heard while mentoring kids at an East London pupil referral unit, writer-director Henry Blake’s powerful feature debut boasts a compelling central performance by Conrad Khan as 14-year-old Tyler, whose mum Toni (Ashley Madekwe) is struggling to provide for him and his sister. Excluded from school, Tyler becomes a train-bound narcotics courier for local criminal Simon, played with a calm menace by Harris Dickinson. County Lines (2019) depicts the ensuing cycle of debt, deceit and violent exploitation with a quiet stylistic confidence that’s all the more haunting for being so rigorously unsentimental.

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